13 Oct
Amazon
London
Description
Are you ready to apply your risk expertise to Amazon's unique environment? We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated expertise in EU / UK regulated financial services company to lead the EU / UK Risk team. You will play a vital role in ensuring that Amazon complies with local and global legal and compliance requirements, using a pragmatic approach to balance risk management guidance against competing priorities. You will join a team that partners across the organization to shape the future of Amazon's evolving risk and compliance programs and where we value ownership, insight, intellectual flexibility, and sound business judgment.
Key job responsibilities
(1) EU / UK Risk Manager:
Lead the risk management program for the EU / UK licensed entities (payments, insurance distribution, and credit broking), including:
- Roadmap creation, including embedding of risk management mechanisms and support for change management (e.g. product launches, geographic launches, etc.);
- Monitoring of risk exposure versus entity risk appetite, with escalation as appropriate;
- Facilitate detailed, data driven narratives to inform leadership/Board members of risk levels, mitigations, and impacts;
- Incident response support.
(2) Global Programs: Responsible for global program, including development of policies, procedures, toolkits, and other governance documents as necessary:
- Business Continuity / Operational Resilience;
- Product Risk Assessment/Material Changes to Business Products;
(3) People Management:
- Manage a team of three globally dispersed direct reports through the employee lifecycle (sourcing, onboarding, in employment, and offboarding).
Key skills needed for the role include:
- Strong operational, second line risk management skills, with a minimum of 5 yrs experience in a risk management role;
- Manage several projects simultaneously with a sense of urgency;
- Articulate the three lines of risk management model and help define ownership roles and responsibilities;
- Coach non-risk professionals on key elements of Risk Management best practices;
- A pragmatic approach to risk, balancing risk mitigation activities with risk appetite and resource levels;
- Strong document writing and verbal communication.
- Proven data analysis skills.
A day in the life
You will use your experience working with compliance and businesses and working autonomously to meet with external customers,
give advice and feedback on application of risk management, draft documents, schedule meetings and workshops, provide feedback, meet with internal risk team, create reports, meet with senior leadership, oversee the work of others who are supporting this initiative, determine workloads, work on global projects, raise your hand to innovate the global risk management program.
About the team
You will join a small global team of 15+ different nationalities and diverse experience from different sectors, where we value inclusive team culture, work life harmony, mentorship, and career growth.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience in compliance, audit or risk management
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience in an established risk management role.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Ability to manage and analyze data.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Payments controls, modern transactions processing in a financial institution.
- Experience in global risk programs addressing multiple regulatory requirements.
- Demonstrated track record of taking ownership and driving results.
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, technical environment
- Risk Management certification or equivalent
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▶️ Sr. Risk Manager, Risk and Compliance Solution
🖊️ Amazon
📍 London